2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships
2018 edition of the World Team Table Tennis Championships
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The 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Halmstad, Sweden from 29 April to 6 May 2018.[2]
The quarterfinal between North Korea and South Korea in the women's tournament did not take place, as the teams chose to continue as a united team[3]
Seeding
The top fourteen teams of the first division and the top two teams of the second division at the 2016 World Team Championships were guaranteed a place in the first division, along with top eight placed teams in the world rankings not already qualified.[4][5][6]
| Qualification | Men's team | Women's team |
|---|---|---|
| Top fourteen in 2016 | ||
| Top two of the 2nd division in 2016 |  India Brazil |
India Luxembourg |
| ITTF world team ranking |  Chinese Taipei Belgium Russia Egypt Romania Belarus Singapore Slovenia |
Russia Poland Egypt Belarus Brazil Czech Republic United States Sweden |
Medal summary
Medal table
* Host nation (Sweden)
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's team |
 ChinaFan Zhendong Lin Gaoyuan Ma Long Wang Chuqin Xu Xin |
 GermanyTimo Boll Ruwen Filus Patrick Franziska Dimitrij Ovtcharov Bastian Steger |
 South KoreaJang Woo-jin Jung Young-sik Kim Dong-hyun Lee Sang-su Lim Jong-hoon |
| Sweden Anton Källberg Kristian Karlsson Mattias Karlsson Truls Möregårdh Jon Persson | |||
| Women's team |
China Chen Meng Ding Ning Liu Shiwen Wang Manyu Zhu Yuling |
 JapanHina Hayata Miu Hirano Kasumi Ishikawa Mima Ito Miyu Nagasaki |
 Hong KongDoo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching Mak Tze Wing Ng Wing Nam Soo Wai Yam Minnie |
 KoreaCha Hyo-sim Choe Hyon-hwa Jeon Ji-hee Kim Ji-ho Kim Nam-hae Kim Song-i Seo Hyo-won Yang Ha-eun Yoo Eun-chong |